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Experts Argue Caring for Smokers, the Obese May Be Too Costly: ‘Why Not Just Let These Health Sinners Die?’
Jan. 26, 2013 3:55pm Erica Ritz
Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a chilling question
Read More>http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...h-sinners-die/

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.

Why not make it easy and just say if you are sick or have a disease it must be because of some irresponsible behavior you have and deny health care. After all it is just a tax.

This doesn't surprise me in the the least. Wait til they start denying treatment for the flu because you didn't get a flu shot.

“Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.”
G. K. Chesterton

It goes back to the "healthcare rationing" (death panels) by the husseincare Healthcare Reform.

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[note-to-self]
With a 74 year old body, I don't think of my 24 year old mind as elderly, but I better not have another heart attack!
[/note-to-self]

Don't even *think* about it Marv, this creep of a man and his minions already have plenty more plans on hand that we don't yet know about ... to cut off all of us over 65 ... for one reason or another.

To him we are just "useless eaters!"

Hell's Bells! I agree with FlaGator, what will happen if we don't take the flu shot? I have never had one, and don't intend to either.

Mr. ABC has one every year, and every year he gets sick from it and I keep my distance from him. This year he had a pneumonia shot as well ... and suffered a *double whammy!*